答非所問 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 答非所问 dáfēisuǒwèn ㄉㄚˊ ㄈㄟ ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄨㄣˋ to sidestep the question idiom to answer evasively Character by character 答(dá)answer 非(fēi)not be 所(suǒ)actually 問(wèn)ask A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0